Dear Mahesh,
While moving about in your office, do you use a cane or require sighted
assistance? In case you move about independently, you can use it as an
example to convince your boss. If the boss refuses to be convinced, then the
route of approaching the NGO's or media can be followed.
But before going down the road of involving NGO's & media, I think you
should have a one-on-one discussion with your boss & let him know about the
capabilities of the VI in general & yours in particular with regard to
travelling. If you have travelled to any place on official trips, you can
use that incident to press your case.
But you shouldn't move aside just on account of your superior's ignorance.
Regards
Mr. Sameer Latey
Mumbai, India
----- Original Message -----
From: "rahul cherian" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 5:10 PM
Subject: Re: [AI] behaviour of my superior
Srinivasu,
I am not backing him because he is blind. I am backing him because in his
email he mentions that "I am the most qualified and most senior person for
the job." He therefore deserves to go for the Conference whether he is
blind
or not.
Your argument for supporting Mahesh's boss is that he was not aware of the
capabilities of visually impaired people. Does this excuse his act?
Absolutely not. Let me put this to you. Assume that an American (where
they
drive on the right side of the road) comes to India and drives on the
right
side of the road ending up causing an accident. Can his act be condoned
because he was not "aware" that in India we drive on the left side of the
road? Absolutely not.
Also, did Mahesh's boss take the effort to understand whether a blind
person
can travel like everyone else before he reached his conclusion?
In my mind it is very clear that the fault lies squarely with the boss.
You
cannot sweep such ignorance under the carpet on the ground that he was not
"aware" and no one took the effort to educate him. This will only continue
to perpetuate ignorance, unless we take up these issues in the most strong
way possible.
Cheers,
Rahul Cherian
Inclusive Planet
On 24 September 2010 16:24, Srinivasu Chakravarthula <
[email protected]> wrote:
Rahul and others,
I would have surely supported your view, if Mahesh had explained his
superior that he could travel and participated and he should have told
them, it is inappropriate to back him by just the reason that he is
blind. As per Mahesh's original email, it does not appears to me that
he tried anything to create awareness.
Whether we like it or not, still there is lots to be done from
awareness prospective. I even think, lot of NGOs needs to be improved
too.
Thanks,
On 9/24/10, rahul cherian <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think that a comprehensive approach is needed, both in terms of legal
> strategy as well as media engagement. One without the other will not
> make
> any significant difference. If we as educated, technology using persons
with
> disabilities fail to respond to, and take up such issues change will
happen
> only slowly. We have to make change happen and not wait for it to take
its
> time.
>
> Mahesh, do let me know whether I should get some journalists to get in
touch
> with you.
>
>
>
> On 24 September 2010 15:56, Subramani L <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
>> It is indeed shocking and dismaying to see someone who is technically
>> minded has to speak like this. Ironically, these are the very people
>> who seem to boast about their work on ORCA and other so-called
>> accessibility tools for the disabled persons . One thing they must try
>> developing is a device with a heart and a proper thinking brain:
>> things they obviously do not have. Sometimes I lose my cool on hearing
>> things like these since it makes me wonder what best can be done to
>> put sense into people's head. After all, I can write and people like
>> Subash Vhashisht, Kanchan or Rahul can fight, but putting sense into
>> people's head... Difficult thing indeed. So Mahesh, it's their loss
>> not your's.
>>
>> Subramani
>>
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